Have you ever seen a book trailer? Book trailers can be made of music and text set to still images, acted out, or animated. They can also contain interviews with authors.
Please take my survey on book trailers for a graduate school project – it will take you less than 5 minutes and will be a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘books’
November 10, 2009
Calling all readers! Help a girl out – take my quick survey
November 9, 2009
Breaking Dawn to become a movie
*spoilers*
I don’t know much about clevvertv.com but in August they reported that Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer’s last novel in the Twilight saga, will indeed be made into a film like the first three books, Twilight, New Moon (hitting theaters next week) and Eclipse.
The article says that Melissa Rosenberg, the movie’s screenwriter, hinted that part of [...]
October 31, 2009
If this book was butter…
These are so lovely, I have to share: illustrations by Brian Wildsmith in A Child’s Garden of Verses.
I couldn’t express it better than Vintage Kids’ Books:
if this book was butter, right now I would be smearing it all over toast
Get the book here.
October 23, 2009
Famous authors on fairytales
Wicked parents, sleeping beauties (or princes?), quests, disguises, magic, love, danger… the Guardian has great a fairytale series going on with retellings and analysis by writers such as Philip Pullman, Marina Warner, and AS Byatt. Thanks to Monica Edinger (another interesting blogger, and Alice fan, discovered!) @ educating alice for pointing it out.
October 23, 2009
And I thought Twilight couldn’t get any creepier
One night in Twilight-world, Edward reveals to Bella that he has snuck into her room to watch her sleep, and that’s he’s been doing so for, oh, about a month. But Bella doesn’t mind, or think this is creepy, or any kind of violation, because it’s sooooo romaaaaantic.
Now Edward can watch you while you [...]
October 8, 2009
Where the Wild Artists Are
Check out this fantastic blog displaying a growing collection of art inspired by Where The Wild Things Are. All of the pieces are unique and gorgeous, but here are my favorites:
Learn more about the project and the artists – even buy a piece – here.
September 11, 2009
Gossip Girl vs. Hamlet
A recent essay in The New York Times introduced me to Accelerated Reader, a reading management software system that has been around for more than 20 years, but that I had never heard of until now. Thank God. I shudder to think how it could have mangled my sense of literary excellence and maimed my [...]
August 18, 2009
Christians start to see the light – in Harry Potter
Since the first book, the Harry Potter series has incited religious conservatives and over-protective parents to reprehensible acts against intellectual freedom, including book bannings and even book burnings. As the later books in the series were published, more theologians began to come around (spoiler alert!) – finally – to the overarching ethical and spiritual themes [...]
July 28, 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Film
After looking forward to the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie for a long, long time, I finally saw it on Sunday. The movies have done a great job of living up to the books – until now.
What worked:
The additions and change in sequence at the beginning of the film were much more visually [...]
